Oswego police confirmed Martin is retired from the department and said that he was not part of the department while the drug investigation he was swept up in was under way.

Troy Martin

According to Post-Standard archives, Martin and Officer Michael Kearns were accused of raping a woman in 1993. The woman, who at the time was 25, filed a $36 million lawsuit in July 1994 against the city, Kearns and Martin.

Criminal charges were never filed against Martin or Kearns. The woman didn't file charges because she didn't want to appear before a grand jury or in criminal court, said one of her lawyers at the time.

The city settled the lawsuit out-of-court in 1997 for $50,000.

In 1997, the city also settled another case in which Martin was accused of causing personal and emotional injuries. That case was settled for $27,000 according to newspaper archives.

In 1993 Martin and Kearns were suspended without pay for 30 days. Martin was president of the police union at the time. It was reported that the suspensions were the result of an agreement between the officers and the city, in lieu of a civil service hearing.

When Martin was a campus police officer at the State University College at Oswego, the state Court of Claims determined that he and another officer used excessive force in arresting a college student in 1985. The student was awarded $1,200 in damages.

Martin retired from the Oswego Police Department in 2006 and receives an annual pension of $24,333, according to state records.

A phone message left for Martin was not returned Thursday night. Reached by phone Martin's attorney, Salvatore Lanza, declined to comment.